Improvement in trunks



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ANTONY V. ROMADKA, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO ROMADKA BROTHERS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRUNKS.

Specification forming p'art of Letters Patent N o. 167,024, dated August 24, 1875; application filed v June 24, 1875.

In the drawings, A marks the body, B the tray, and C the top, of the trunk. Hingebrackets aare attached to the back of the trunk, on the inside, as shown, and pintles b are attached by straps c to the rear side of the tray, in such a position that when the tray is in place .the pintles b-will rest in the open hinge-brackets a and serve as hinges, on which the tray can be turned up or down at pleasure.' A chain, D, is attached to the front side of the tray, and is provided with a hook, c, which engages with the ,staple fof the trunkhasp E, to hold the tray inthe upright position, as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

What I claim is- In combination with a hinged removable trunk-tray, the chain D andy hook e, adapted to engage with the staple f of the trunk-hasp E7 in the manner and for the purpose described.

The above specification of my said invention signed and witnessed at Milwaukee this 16th day of June, D. 1875.

A. v. EOMADKA.

Witnesses:

THos. JEFFERSON PERELES, C. RIEs. 

